Dear Members,
We hope that you are enjoying your winter and we look
forward to seeing you playing some golf real soon! This winter has been an odd one for
sure. We had significant snow in October
and November and hardly any moisture in December and January. We did have to charge up our winter
irrigation system in the middle of January to keep turf and trees
hydrated. We then had significant snow
in February.
Ever wonder what our Team does in
the winter months? We perform a wide
range of tasks that complete the previous season and get us ready for the
upcoming season. These tasks include
winter watering, refinishing tee plaques and markers, leaf cleanup, landscape
bed maintenance, native mowing, tree and shrub pruning, and facility
maintenance. These are just to name a
few.
We completed pruning of our large
cottonwood trees throughout the golf course in mid February. Some of the trees we focused on were near tee
boxes on 3, 16 and 17 to keep them from encroaching with the tee shot. We contract with SavaTree to help us with
this, as they have the equipment and expertise needed for this kind of
work. We are also going to start
treating our ash trees this year for Emerald Ash Borer. It continues to be identified in surrounding
areas of Boulder and it is just a matter of time until it reaches us. These treatments have been perfected over the
years as it has spread across the US from the East coast.
Just a reminder that Spring
aerification will be April 13th-15th . We will be aerating greens and tees as usual
and deep-tining approaches and fairways.
This will be followed by topdressing sand as we have done in the past.
We look forward to another great year here at Cherry Creek
Country Club!
See you on the course!
The Grounds Team